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Season 1 Episode 56
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Season 1 Episode 57
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Jane Goodall on Instinct

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Richard Feynman on What It Means

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Patty Hearst on Reasonable Doubt

Season 1 Episode 50

"I'm sorry, I‘m a coward. I didn’t want to die." - Patty Hearst in 1982 in the first interview she gave after getting out of prison. Lawrence Grobel explained how he became the lucky journalist to get the Patty Hearst interview for Playboy after she had served two years in prison before President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence.

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